The Act of Killing
El acto de matar // The act of killing
Dinamarca, 2012
115 min. Documentary
Director:
Joshua Oppenheimer
Screening:
Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti: 08/08, 21:00hs
Centro Cultural San MartÃn: 09/08, 18:00hs
contact:
joshua.oppenheimer@gmail.com
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. The hallucinatory result an unsettling journey - a cinematic fever dream.